Given name
Aija
“to rock, lull”·“cradle”
Aija is a feminine given name. It is used in Finnish and Latvian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Aija is built from elements meaning “to rock, lull” and “cradle”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Aija is an affectionate form of Aili.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1979. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aija through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 388
- 0 boys · 388 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 30 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 8 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 30 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 507 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aija’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Aija is an affectionate form of Aili. In Finnish usage, Aija has a related form in EIJA.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Aija
- AishaLatvian singer (born 1986)
- Aija KlakockaLatvian basketball player (born 1986)
- Aija JurjāneLatvian basketball player (born 1988)
- Aija TēraudaLatvian actress and model (born 1982)
- Aija SakovaEstonian literary scholar, literary critic and writer (born 1980)
- Aija BarčaLatvian politician (born 1949)
- Aija KukuleLatvian singerborn 1956
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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